Michigan Reps. Debbie Dingell and Lisa McClain introduced a bipartisan bill today that would authorize the U.S. to provide mapping of the Great Lakes. The Great Lakes Mapping Act would authorize $200 ...

Topeka? Kansas is gaining ground, and not in a good way. The state’s lakes and reservoirs are filling in with sediment, sometimes at alarming rates, and that could mean hundreds of millions of dollars ...

Jennifer Boehme grew up scouting beaches around her home in St. Petersburg, Florida, for whatever she could find. Rocks, sand dollars, coquina mollusks — anything the ocean gave up. Now, 40 years ...

GRAND HAVEN, Mich. — If poured out like a pitcher of lemonade, the water held by the Great Lakes could cover the land mass of both North and South America with more than a foot of water. In fact, Lake ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. — A proposed bill in the US House would provide funding to map the lakebeds of the Great Lakes, the world's largest freshwater system. The legislation would direct the National ...

We know less about the bottom of the Great Lakes than we do about the surface of Mars, according to Jennifer Boehme. The oceanographer is executive director of the Great Lakes Observing System, an Ann ...

Amir Daftari is a Newsweek reporter based in London, specializing in global affairs with a focus on the Middle East. He joined Newsweek in 2024 from the United Nations and has previously worked at CNN ...